Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Grammar Portfolio

Sentence I missed: I know that I became interested in fishing when I saw a 50 or so inch salmon jump high out of the water and I saw that purple shimmer that comes off of its scales.
Problem: Compound sentences joined by a conjunction must also have a comma in front of the conjunction.
Explanation & Interpretations: There should be a comma in front of "and" because it is separating two independent things that I did which were seeing the scales and seeing it jump.
Correction: insert a comma before "and " to distinguish the compound sentence.

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